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the filaments: the first grounded solely upon the adop- 
tion of an error originating with Mr. Nuttall, who had 
overlooked the glands; the other not constant in thé 
genus, as proved by the-samples:‘of Manonta nepalensis i0 
the Lambertian Herbarium, where the filaments are simple. 
In respect to the difference of habit arising from the une- 
qually pinnated foliage of the group proposed for MaHont4y 
it has been as acutely as judiciously remarked to us by Mr 
Brown, that the footstalk of the simple leaf of all Berbe-— 
rides is jointed, a modification known in many. cases, pal-— 
ticularly in Jasminee, to be a natural step in the pro- 
gressive transition from the simple to the pinnated. or com=- 
pound state of foliation. In Berserts tragacanthoides an 
caraganefolia, although the leaf consists of one or tw0- 
pair of leaflets without the odd one at the end, the plac? — 
of that odd one is nevertheless supplied by a trifid spine 
The germen is certainly one-celled and not three-celled, a5 
asserted by Pursh. The result of the review of these as-— 
sumed distinctions proving such, we cannot but feel with 
Mr. Brown that they afford no. pretence for following out 
the separation of Manonra from Berperis, and we hav? 
consequently considered them of the same genus. 
The introduction of this highly ornamental shrub is due — 
to Mr. Lambert, who raised it from seed sent to him by | 
Professor Lagasca from the Botanic Garden at Madrid, 
_ where it had been obtained from seed collected at Monterey, — 
on the coast of California, by Don Louis Née, the natu-— 
ralist of the expedition under the command of the ill-fated 
Malespina. The species has been also observed by Messrs: 
Humboldt and Bonpland near Moran, in Mexico, at the 
height of 1340 fathom above the level of the sea. 
Two plants of the shrub are now (March) covered. 
with their golden fragrant blossom in, the greenhouse at 
Boyton, where they have attained the height of five or six 
feet. Don MSS. . 
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